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Meta's AI companion app Muse has reached 10.9 million downloads since its September debut, 10.2 million of them in the United States, according to Sensor Tower. Only 11 other apps have reached 10 million U.S. downloads within 40 days of launch. The most recent was Threads in July 2023, and most of the others were mobile games. Muse is ava…
This TechCrunch Equity interview features Amulya Vishwanath, founder and managing partner of Techable Ventures, a VC firm focused on physical AI. She is a former Nvidia product marketer. She argues that robotics has not yet had its "ChatGPT moment" and is in a "LEGO era", in which foundational software and hardware building blocks such as…
JustWatch Group, the company behind the streaming guide used by 50 million people, launched JustWatch TV on 2026-10-20. It is its own streaming service, available in the existing JustWatch apps and website in 12 markets, including the U.S., U.K., Germany and France. The service has an ad-supported free tier, an ad-free JustWatch TV Plus t…
Electric Plant, a startup co-founded by CEO Justin Mast and neuroscientist Lee von Kraus, raised an $11.2 million seed round led by Onto Ventures and Climactic. The company is commercializing low-cost plant-mounted sensors and Bombadil, a model trained on electrical signals from about 125 plant species. The goal is to give growers real-ti…
At its first Config conference in India, Figma announced 20 new model context protocol (MCP) partners, including Amp, ClickUp, Dia, Junie by JetBrains, Linear, Meta Muse, Mistral, Notion, OpenCode and Sarvam Agents. Co-founder Dylan Field said MCP is "not a perfect protocol" and favors frontier labs. He also criticized Anthropic, MCP's cr…
Inspired Capital, the New York-based early-stage venture firm founded in 2019 by Alexa von Tobel and Penny Pritzker, closed its fourth fund with $450 million in commitments, bringing assets under management to nearly $1.4 billion. The article is business and funding news with no security incident, vulnerability, threat actor or malware co…
Oura announced two new workout-tracking features, Cardio Effort and VO₂ max, as competition in the smart ring market grows from rivals such as RingConn and Ultrahuman. Cardio Effort shows how much a workout taxes the cardiovascular system and aggregates it into a weekly total relative to each user's baseline. VO₂ max is estimated passivel…
Reliable Robotics, a Mountain View, California startup building autonomous flight systems for existing aircraft, raised $115 million as an extension of its Series D. The round comprises $90 million in equity led by Nimble Partners and $25 million in debt from Silicon Valley Bank. It brings the Series D to $275 million, lifts the valuation…
Eka Robotics, founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, closed a $150 million Series A at a $1.45 billion post-money valuation, led by a16z and F-Prime. The company has built a robotic manipulation system pairing a force-sensitive gripper with a vision-force-action model, trained throug…
Spotify launched paid podcast memberships on Tuesday, letting creators monetize their biggest fans beyond paywalled bonus episodes. Creators choose the perks, such as bonus audio or video, fewer ads or early access. The feature was previewed at Spotify's Investor Day in May and is rolling out to 34 markets, including the U.S. The launch i…
Yelp has added a Check for Me feature to its app. An AI voice agent calls a restaurant on the user's behalf to check wait times and texts the result back, based on the party size and phone number the user enters. Yelp is also updating its Yelp AI assistant with an OpenTable booking integration, memory of preferences, 30 days of chat histo…
Otter.ai, an AI meeting note-taking vendor, announced a $320 million raise from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF), a non-dilutive vehicle that earns returns on marketing spend results. Otter plans to use the capital for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion and product innovation. The company passed …
Estonia-based Blackwall, which sells web traffic security tools to hosting, managed service and cloud providers, announced a $100 million Series C at a $2.2 billion valuation, four times its 2025 valuation. The round was led by AVP, with Dawn Capital, MMC Ventures and Tera Ventures participating. Blackwall uses a channel model: providers …
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at The People's AI Assembly, hosted by the AI Now Institute, that the federal government has abdicated its role in regulating AI. He urged New Yorkers to resist the idea that AI adoption is inevitable. He pointed to his September order banning AI use in elementary and middle schools. He also pointed…
Flipkart, the Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce company, is internally testing a food-delivery service called "Eat-in by Minutes" in Bengaluru. The trial has grown from a few hundred employees to more than 8,000, and Flipkart has deployed a dedicated rider fleet through its logistics arm Ekart. The service draws on restaurants listed via ON…
Bloomberg reports, as relayed by TechCrunch, that Anthropic and AI infrastructure provider Nscale are close to announcing a second $45 billion compute deal, a little over a month after their first deal of the same size. Sources cautioned that talks are ongoing and the details could change. If completed, it would be the latest of many larg…
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Hugging Face chief policy officer Irene Solaiman said AI model evaluations remain an immature science with limited reproducibility and no meaningful way to compare tests against each other. She argued that open weights are central to reproducing results and that qualifications for effective third-party evaluators ne…
Microsoft announced new enterprise security features on 19 October 2026 to monitor and control AI agents, treating them as potential insider threats. The centerpiece is Guardian Agents, part of Project Perception, which Microsoft introduced in June as its answer to AI-driven hacking and vulnerability-scanning systems such as Anthropic's M…
This TechCrunch Mobility newsletter is industry and business news with no cybersecurity incident, vulnerability or threat activity. The main story covers an interview with Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, who describes a shift toward becoming a "tech supplier" by licensing its electric architecture, software, AI models and autonomy stack. Rivian i…
Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, and Disney has agreed to make employment offers to at least 60 of its employees, the majority of the workforce, at an estimated $60 million in annual compensation. A legal filing spotted by Bloomberg says the "vast majority" of those offered jobs accepted. Disney had previously agreed t…
